Teaching Specialties

Current Courses Being Taught

Professional Affiliations / Organizations

American College of Sports Medicine 1983-

Fellow (FACSM)

International Society of Exercise and Immunology 1993-

American Physiological Society 1995-

American Society for Nutrition 2007-

Research Interests

David Nieman is a professor in the College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University, and director of the Human Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, NC (www.ncresearchcampus.net). Dr. Nieman is a pioneer in the research area of exercise immunology, and helped establish that 1) regular moderate exercise lowers upper respiratory tract infection rates while improving immunosurveillance, 2) heavy exertion increases infection rates while causing transient changes in immune function, and 3) that carbohydrate and flavonoid ingestion by athletes attenuates exercise-induced immune dysfunction. Dr. Nieman's current work is centered on investigating unique nutritional products as countermeasures to exercise- and obesity-induced immune dysfunction, inflammation, illness, and oxidative stress (www.ncrc.appstate.edu). Dr. Nieman has received $7.5 million in research grants and published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books, and sits on 10 journal editorial boards including the Journal of Applied Physiology and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Dr. Nieman's Google Scholar H index is 71, and his publications have been cited more than 16,000 times. He is the author of nine books on health, exercise science, and nutrition, including Exercise Testing and Prescription: A Health-Related Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011, now in its 7th edition). Dr. Nieman served as vice-president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), president of SEACSM, and two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology. Dr. Nieman received the "100 Scholars Faculty Research Award" from ASU in 1997, the Montoye Scholar Award from the Southeastern American College of Sports Medicine in 2006, the ASU College of Fine and Applied Arts researcher of the year award in 2006, ACSM's Citation Award in 2013, and represented ASU three times as the Oliver Max Gardner nominee (ASU's highest award). He was an acrobatic gymnast and coach for 10 years, and has run 58 marathons (PR 2:37) and ultramarathons.